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Hill country blues (also known as North Mississippi hill country blues or North Mississippi blues) is a regional style of country blues.It is characterized by a strong emphasis on rhythm and percussion, steady guitar riffs, few chord changes, unconventional song structures, and heavy emphasis on the "groove", which has been characterized as the "hypnotic boogie".
The Monterey Jazz Festival is a nonprofit organization. It has donated its proceeds to musical education since its inception in 1958. The festival's scholarship program started with a $35,000 scholarship fund in 1970. As of 2012, the festival invests $600,000 annually for jazz education.
The 2019 edition of the festival saw Elton John offer a historic show at Saussaz Stadium before 15,000 people. This is the festival's first-ever stadium concert. Auditorium Stravinski
This annual festival celebrates the indigenous music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana, so the music encompasses every style associated with the city and the state: contemporary and traditional jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, Cajun music, zydeco, Afro-Caribbean, folk music, Latin, rock, rap music, country music, and bluegrass.
Montreux (band) Montreux was an American fusion band, specializing in the blend of jazz and bluegrass, with jam elements. The band was active from approximately 1982 until 1990, and recorded on Windham Hill Records. The name of the band came from the jazz festival in Switzerland of the same name, at which an early version of the band was formed ...
Scott Hamilton (sax) and Ray Brown (bass) at the festival in 1979. The Concord Jazz Festival is an annual event that was established in 1969 in Concord, California. The festival was launched by Carl Jefferson, a car dealer and jazz enthusiast, who managed to get a group of friends to support the concept. The city agreed to pay for half the cost.
Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival, the largest west of the Mississippi River, that takes place in April on the campus of the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. In 2007, the festival was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the nation’s most prestigious arts award. [1]
Jazz, adult contemporary, soft rock [1][2] Occupation. Singer-songwriter. Instrument (s) Vocals, saxophone, guitar. Labels. Arista, Columbia, Concord Jazz. Curtis Stigers (born October 18, 1965) is an American jazz singer. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably the international hit "I Wonder Why" (1991), which reached No ...